spence munsinger
artist & painter
I tend to think in terms of visuals. One of the more stunning visuals for me is a wall of IV’s next to an oscillating ventilator next to the dialysis machine that is currently keeping my daughter alive. This is day, hold on, let me count – day 24 for my 23 year old daughter [...]
Acrylic on canvas painted impasto and painting knife over airbrush, Sunsets is an ongoing series. I am an Expat. Californian. These paintings come from a sense of immediate distance, of separation, of childhood for me. They are born from a clarity of color and light along warm sand and asphalt hot enough to burn the [...]
—spence
There is no moment of more intense color and beauty than a sunset in California. The light is perfect for just that moment and then changes and that instant is gone. SUNSETS are a synthesis of that moment. You come up over the hill, and you see a moment of sunset, you feel an inner [...]
…and he walked into a great sandstone building. “oooooffff. My nose…” Nick Danger, 3rd Eye Many years in Los Angeles – I can still hear freeway traffic as a background noise. An hallucinated, auditory presence, recovered with the memory of half my life. I sit on the porch in the evening here [...]
"Sale Pending." Moving a family away from someplace that was home, into the unknown. Between second and third grades I was moved from Illinois to Del Mar, California. Someone moved into the place I was most aware of as home in Illinois. At some point there was a "SOLD" or "Sale Pending" sign out front [...]
There is a weblogger I’ve been following. An artist. Her articles, interviews and postings are well worth finding and reading. There is a page, firstpersonartist.com, which lists and promotes the articles in and of themselves. Brooks’ personal site is www.kimberlybrooks.com. She is currently doing an exhibition titled “Technicolor Summer”. Lasts until 14th June. Worth seeing. [...]
